EDUCATION
M.F.A University of Delaware, Painting, 2005
B.F.A. Millersville University, Studio Art, 1997
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Painting, drawing, sculpture and installation
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Lists,
James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy of Science,
Arts and Letters, Madison WI, scheduled for August 2009
Perimeter,
DeRicci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison WI, 2009
Confluence,
Space Gallery, Denver CO, 2007
Parameters, Lancaster Galleries,
Lancaster PA, 2001
Surroundings, Lancaster Galleries,
Lancaster PA, 1999
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
51st Annual Beloit and Vicinity Exhibition,
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit WI, Jurors:
John McKinnon, curatorial assistant of Modern & Contemporary
Art, Milwaukee Art Museum and Mike Brenner, director and
curator, Hotcakes Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2008.
New Talent Juried Show, Space
Gallery, Denver, CO, Jurors: Michael Burnett, Justin Brunelle,
Tyler Aiello, artists, 2006
Out of Paint: Traditional is Non-traditional,
Kuhn Gallery, The Ohio State University, Marion, OH, Curators:
Christopher Helman and Vanesa Wilkey-Escobar, Ohio State
University, 2006
Full Acquittal, Secret Show
Series, Nashville, TN, 2006
Identity, Gallery MC, New York,
NY, Curator: Louis Flanigan, artist, 2005
Last Call: M.F.A Thesis Exhibition,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2005
Thirteen, 11th and Orange Gallery,
Wilmington, DE, 2005
Group Show, Delaware Center For Horticulture,
Wilmington, DE, Curator: Robert Straight, Professor of
Art, University of Delaware, 2005
Art in the Garden, University
of Delaware, Newark, DE, Curators: Carolyn Golt, College
of Agriculture, and David Meyer, Assistant Professor of
Art, University of Delaware, 2004
New Blood: New Work from First Year M.F.A.
Candidates, University of Delaware, Newark,
DE, 2004
Rethinking Landscape, Pennsylvania
College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA, Curator: Kristy
Krivitski, Instructor of Art, Pennsylvania College of
Art and Design, 2003
Art Happens, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE, Curator: Lois Flannigan, artist, University
of Delaware, 2003
Suspend and Levitate, Suzanne
H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville,
PA, Curator: Leo Mazow, Curator of American Art, Palmer
Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, 2002
Obsessive Vision, Nexus, Philadelphia,
PA, Curator: Christine Blair, Philadelphia Artist and
Nexus Member, 2002
Annual Juried Exhibition, Abington
Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, Jurors: Becky and Gil Kerlin
of Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Honorable Mention, 2001
Works on Paper, Arcadia University,
Glenside, PA, Juror: Thelma Golden, Deputy Director of
Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum of Harlem,
2001
Works on Paper, Perkins Center
for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ, Juror: Judith Cizek, Curator
of 20th Century Contemporary Art, Delaware Museum of Art,
Juror’s Award, 2001
Go Figure, Demuth Foundation,
Lancaster, PA, Invitational, 2000
Teacher’s Pets, Lancaster
Galleries, Lancaster, PA, Curators: Robert Andruilli,
Associate Professor of Art, Millersville University and
Kim Fox of Lancaster Galleries, 1998
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / RESIDENCIES
Visiting artist, Edgewood Collage Art
Department, working with sculpture and seminar classes
on a collaborative project, Fall 2009
Art Installer and Picture framer, Monroe
Street Framing, Madison WI, 2008 - present
Arts Instructor, Madison School and Community
Recreation, Madison WI, teach beginning and advanced drawing
and watercolor classes, 2008 - present
Adjunct Instructor, Metropolitan State
Collage of Denver, CO, taught Drawing I, Spring, Fall
2006
Frame and Production Designer, Platte
River Art Services, Denver, Colorado, created frame designs
and finishes for a wholesale line of closed corner frames,
also developed and managed production and shipping procedures,
as well as assisted in other areas of design and production
of labor-intensive high-end picture frames, including
hand carving and gilding.
Adjunct Instructor / Teaching Assistant,
University of Delaware, taught and developed curricula
for the following classes: Introduction to Painting, Elementary
Drawing and Painting, Drawing I: Tools and Techniques,
Design in Visual Arts. Also invited and coordinated artists
visits, ran a picture framing workshop, and assisted artist-in-residence
Lily Yeh and the Community Remembrance Project / Art as
Social Activism, a University initiative whose goal was
to create a memorial to the local African American Community.
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center,
Johnson, VT, 2003
Art Technician, Kevin Strickland Fine
Art Services, Philadelphia, PA, matted, mounted, fit,
installed, crated and shipped artwork, specializing in
large or fragile works on paper, 1999-2003
Artist in Residence, Millersville University,
Millersville, PA, maintained painting studio, assisted
with painting classes, and curated gallery exhibition,
1997-8
AWARDS / HONORS / GRANTS
BLINK Grant for Temporary Public Art,
Madison Arts Commission, Madison, WI, 2007
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University
of Delaware, 2004-5
Honorable Mention, Abington Art Center
(Annual Juried Exhibition), 2001
Juror’s Award, Perkins Center for
the Arts (Works on Paper Juried Exhibition), 2001
Robert G Hustead Art History Award,
Millersville University, 1997
Edna Rochow Workman Memorial Scholarship,
Millersville University, 1997
Anne Tunnis Summy Watercolor Award,
Millersville University,1996
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATIONS
New American Paintings #77:
Vol. 9, issue 4 (August/September 2008): 164-7. Curated
by Raphaela Platow, Director and Chief Curator, Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Laskin, Tom “Surprised By Art.” The
Isthmus, January 11, 2008
“Tell Her You’ll Marry Her All Over Again”
Matter, A Journal of Literature, Art and Movement:
9 (2006): 152-3.
Woods, Jennifer. “Artists in Metanexus Project Eye
the Science and Religion Divide.” Science
and Theology News, February 2005: 12.
“Identity.” Are you ready?
online artist project, Louis Flannigan, curator
Gorman, Rene. “Students Exhibit” The
Review, February 11th, 2005.
“Visual Explorations.” Metanexus
Online Journal, Julia Loving, ed., April
30th, 2004,
Di Fonzo, Karla. “Brave New World of . . . Landscapes?”
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal,
August 29, 2003.
Slupe, Ellen. “Inside Pennsylvania.” Art
Matters, October 2002.
Sozanski, Edward J. “Works on Paper Stimulate, Delight.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October
5th, 2001.
Lang, Marlene. “Through the Looking Glass, Conceptual
Artist Sees Through Brick.” Inside,
April 1999: 19.
“From Where Paints, All Views Are Worthy.”
Lancaster Sunday News, March
7th, 1999
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